From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 23 07:41:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16ACA16A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 07:41:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F3ED43D1D for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 07:41:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.strauser.com (pooh.honeypot.net [10.0.5.128]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i3NEf5Ro013907 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:41:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: Kirk Strauser Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:41:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Barbish3@adelphia.net's message of "Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:00:17 -0400") Message-ID: <87pt9yhi4e.fsf@strauser.com> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040415, clamav-milter version 0.70g Subject: Re: Specifying sort fields X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:41:07 -0000 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 2004-04-23T13:00:17Z, "JJB" writes: > Thank you that worked. You know that nowhere in the 'man sort' info does > it say that to use sort command you have to use pipe commands to feed it > data. It doesn't because you don't. The syntax is: sort [OPTION]... [FILE]... which means that you may optionally specify the name of the file to process. For what it's worth, the wide majority of Unix commands accept input from pipes and can write output to pipes. =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser "94 outdated ports on the box, 94 outdated ports. Portupgrade one, an hour 'til done, 82 outdated ports on the box." --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAiSsB5sRg+Y0CpvERAsALAJ9LiisTQsSGY4ljw//rKeh6jUgdtwCglQLF upDayg1RU2QFc4RmVH0UnLo= =6M1I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--